Resilient tire.



H. C. COHEN.

RESILIENT TIRE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 3, 1914.

1,133,102. Patented Mar. 23, 1915.

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H. G. COHEN.

- RBSILIENT TIRE. APPLICATION FILED APR. 3, 1914. 1,133,102. Patented Mar.23,1915.

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HIRAM C. COHEN, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

RESILIENT TIRE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Elgar, 23, 1915.

Application filed April 3, 1914. Serial No. 829,260.

To all 'zr/iom it may concern.

1e it known that I, HIRAM C. COHEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Syracuse. in the county of Onondaga and State of New York. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Resilient Tires; and I. do hereby declare the following to be a full,,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to resilient vehicle tires and more particularly to a tire applicable for use upon automobiles or similar vehicles.

The primary object of this invention is the provision of a resilient tire which has a plurality of shock absorbing resilient members mounted interiorly thereof for peripheral circumferential mounting upon a wheel to absorb the various shocks occasioned by the travel of the vehicle, upon which wheels equipped with the improved tire, are mounted.

Another object of this inventio the provision of resilient means for limiting the movement of the shock absorbing resilient member, for limiting the shock absorbing properties of the tire and preventing the breaking or disruption of the shock absorb ing resilient members.

With the foregoing and other objects in view this invention consists in such novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the ac-.

companying drawings and claimed.

In describing theinvention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters of reference designate like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of av vehicle wheel showing the improved tire attached thereto, and showing a part of the tire broken away. Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view of the tire. Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the resilient shock absorbing means and the resilient means for limiting the movement thereof. Fig. 5 is a detail fragmentary view of the manner and means of attaching the tire to a' vehicle wheel, and Fig. 6 is a detail sectional i i'w of a modified form of the shock absorbing member.

D Referring more particularly to the drawmgs, 1 designates the outer casing or shoe of the tire which is constructed in the ordinary manner, having an outer casing of rubber or similar resilient material and be mg provided with an internal annular recess 2. The recess 2 formed Within the shoe 1 of the tire has the upper or outer arcuate portion thereof filled with any suitable type of filling material as is indicated at 3 and a flat sheet 4 of fiber or other similar springy or resilient material positioned within the tire and forming a roof for the opening or recess formed in the shoe 1. The sheet 4 extends completely about the circumference of the tire and forms an abutment for the ends 5 of the coil springs 6. The springs 6 are positioned in pairs laterally of the tire and in alining rows circumferentially about the interior of the tire.

The ends 7 of the springs which are positioned toward the axis of the tire abut a plate R. which plate is constructed of thin sheet metal or the like and has its marginal edges provided with a plurality of spaced openings 9 for the reception f bolts 10. The bolts 10 extend radially tirough the plate 8 and through the arcuate metallic binding strips 11. The arcuate binding strips 11 are provided with cut-out .portions 12 formed in their under surface, which cutout portions receive the marginal edges of the shoe 1, as is clearly shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. I

The binding strips 11 are hingedly co n nected one, to the one next theretoas is clearly shown at 14, and they extend cir cumferentially about the inner side or edge of the tire and have their sides 15 in facial abutment with the sides of the wheel rim or felly 16 so as to prevent the passage of sand or foreign substance between the binding plates and into the interior of the shoe 1.

In' mounting the shoe 1 upon the rim or felly of a wheel, the marginal edges of the shoe are inserted within the cut-out portions 12 and the various sections of the binding strips 11 are positioned about the felly and moved, through the medium of their hinged connections 'so that they will snugly and firmly fit the edges of the felly, after which the bolts 10 are inserted through openings ing housings therefor, the other of said arms being attached to the uppermost of said convolutions.

3. In a resilient tire, a plurality of substantially straight resilient shock absorbing arms having their corresponding ends connected by a base, said arms extending upwardly from said base and crossing each other intermediate their ends, one of said arms having one end thereof extended and curved to form resilient convolutions which ,are coiled about saidarms for limitingthe shock absorbing resilient movement of said substantially straight arms.

4. The combination with a wheel having a felly, of a resilient tire having a plurality of substantially straightresilient shock absorbingarms mounted therein, said arms be ing arranged in pairs about the circumference of said tire,-lateral bases connecting the corresponding ends of said arms, said bases being supported by said felly, said arms extending upwardly from said bases and being crossed intermediate their ends, one of said arms having one end thereof extended and curved to form resilient convolutions which are coiled about said arms for limiting the resilient shock absorbing movement of said arms, the other of sald arms being connected tothe uppermost of said resilient convolutions and bearing against the inner surface of the outer portion of said tire.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 1n presence 0 two witnesses.

v 4 HIRAM C. COHEN.

Witnesses:

'ROBERT MEYER,

CHAS. M. BIRGKH'EAD. 

